Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xv.--what Happened At Okuni When Anyone Was Killed By Accident., sentence 93
When the morning came, the cock went to the cow, the sheep and goats, and said, “As our master is missing we should all go and look for him.”
Who acts: morning, cock, master, we · What happens: come, go, say, miss, look · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria» by Elphinstone Dayrell, Xv.--what Happened At Okuni When Anyone Was Killed By Accident.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (morning, cock, master, we), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | When | when | SCONJ | _ | 4 came | mark |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 morning | det |
| 3 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 came | nsubj |
| 4 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 went | advcl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 came | punct |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 cock | det |
| 7 | cock | cock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 went | nsubj |
| 8 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 cow | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 cow | det |
| 11 | cow | cow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 went | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 sheep | punct |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 sheep | det |
| 14 | sheep | sheep | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 cow | conj |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 goats | cc |
| 16 | goats | goat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 sheep | conj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 said | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 said | cc |
| 19 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 went | conj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 missing | punct |
| 21 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 26 missing | punct |
| 22 | As | as | SCONJ | _ | 26 missing | mark |
| 23 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 master | nmod:poss |
| 24 | master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 missing | nsubj |
| 25 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 missing | aux |
| 26 | missing | miss | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 19 said | ccomp |
| 27 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 30 go | nsubj |
| 28 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 30 go | aux |
| 29 | all | all | ADV | _ | 30 go | advmod |
| 30 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 26 missing | parataxis |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 look | cc |
| 32 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 30 go | conj |
| 33 | for | for | ADP | _ | 34 him | case |
| 34 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 look | obl |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 30 go | punct |
| 36 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 26 missing | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | the morning | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | go | past | the cock | to the cow and the sheep and goats | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to cow=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | the cock not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | miss in a quote | present · progressive | our master | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 5 | go in a quote | should | we | all property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 6 | look in a quote | infinitive | we not said here | for master | vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for he=Theme |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria» by Elphinstone Dayrell, Project Gutenberg book 70959 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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